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Killing Rats with GPS

Posted by michael on from the pied-piper dept.

techmaven writes "When Channel Islands National Park officials needed an estimated about 300 rats exterminated on the east side of environmentally sensitive Anacapa Island, Aspen Ag Helicopters got the call. The kill was necessary because the rodents, descendants of rats that reached the island by way of a shipwreck a century or more ago, were decimating the populations of two rare seabirds. And GPS helped the helicopter company do the job."

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  1. Remote Control by XBL · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want GPS on my TV remote control, so I can find it.

    1. Re:Remote Control by mgv · · Score: 3, Funny

      I want GPS on my TV remote control, so I can find it.

      If your remote had a GPS, it would know where it was.
      This might not help as much as you would think :)

      Michael

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  2. the problem with this by Monkelectric · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they miss just a male and a female rat, the new rats will breed and the offspring will be immune to GPS :=)

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  3. Alternatives to GPS extermination by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could have just wrecked a second ship that happened to contain several hundred cats.

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  4. Now, If That Doesn't Just Get Your Goat by Wintersmute · · Score: 3, Funny

    You left off the rest of the story.... they paid the Iscariot goat 30 bucks for his troubles, and he tried to turn it down. But they said take it, and he did. Then guilt came to him, and his goat heart was heavy, and he went off and hanged himself. (and became goat jerky)

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